Milk-pail.



PATENTBD FEB. 19, 1907.

J. J. NOL'I'Y.

MILK PAIL.

APPLICATION FILED 00128, 1906.

WJTVNESSES.- J [NVE/WOR. By M A TTORNE YS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. JACOB J. Nomhdr CANAL DOVER, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19,1907.

Application filed October 8, 1906. Serial No. 338,002.

To @ZZ whom t may concern..-

Be it known that I, JACOB J. NOLTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canal Dover, in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Chio, have invented a new and useful Milk-Fail, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a milk-pail of that class provided with means for straining the milk while passing into the pail and for excluding hair, dirt, and other foreign matter.

The invention has for one of its objects to provide a milk-pail of this character which is of comparatively simple and inexpensive construction, so designed as to permit of its parts being readily removed for cleansing and keeping sanitary and which effectively of the niilkail.

strains the nilk and prevents objectionable odors from having free entrance .to the interior of the pail.

A further object of the invention is to provide a milking-pail made up of telescopin sections provided with straining nLeans and with a device on one ofthe sections operating to exclude the entrance of objectionable odors to the 1r ilk in the pail, said device serving to shed the milk that drops onto the same from the top strainer and convey it to a strainer arranged around the same.

With lthese objects in view and others, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully described hereinafter, and set forth with tparticularity in the claims ap'- pended hereto.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one of the embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a central vertical section Fig; 2 is a plan View with portions bro en away.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the body portion of the milk-pail, which is made of sheet-tin, aluminium, or any other suitable material, the .UPPGI portionof the body,

being cylindrical, as. at 2, and having a beaded upper edge 3. The part of the body below the cylindrical ortion 2 is preferably tapered, as shown'. he body 1 is provided with a discharge-opening 4, which extends downward from the lower end of the cylindrical neck 2- to a suitable distance, which opening is covered by a screen 5 of very fine mesh. At this screened opening is arranged a spout 6, having a hinged cover 7, whereby the spout can be kept closed to exclude bad odors to the interior of the pail. The pail is provided with a hail S, that is pivotally connected with eyes 9 adjacent the bead 3.

The screening-sections of the pail are removably fitted in the cylindrical portion or neck 2 of the body 1. One section comprises a relatively short cylinder 10, that fits 1nto the neck 2, and an upwardly and outwardly flaring portion or funnel 11, which portions may be made integral or soldered together, as shown. beaded at 12, and the lower end of the cylinder 10 is bent inwardly to form the internal annular flange 13. The flaring portion or funnel 11 of this section engages the top edge of the neck 2 and prevents the :..iid section from being inserted too far into the pail. The Harige 13 forms a support for the screening elenient of this section of the pail.

The top screen-section comprises avcylinder 14, that telescopes in the cylinder 10, and

two diametrically-arranged arched support-4 ing members 15 for reinforcing the gauze wire or other strainer 16. The strainer 16 is crowned to conform to the curvature of the arched supporting-wires 15, and its periphery is soldered to the cylindrical wall 14 of the inner screen-section. The ends of the wires 15 are also soldered, and thus serve to prevent the screen from colla sing. The upper end of the cylindrical mem er 14 has secured thereto a transverse annular rim 17, which by engaging with the tunnel 11 serves as a stop for limiting the inward movement of the top screen-section. Thus the top screensection is removably supported in the lower screen-section and is removable with the latter from the body of the pail. To facilitate the removal of the top screen-section from the lower screen-section'handholds 18 are provided at diametrically opposite points on the rim 17. When the top screen-section is in lace, the screen 16 thereof is located a oonsi erable distance below the top edge of the funnel, so that the funnel acts as a guard for preventing the milk from splashing out as the streams o milk strike upon the screen 16.

The bottom of the lower screen-section has a comparatively limited reticulated area for the purpose of providing` a restricted communication between the u per open end of the pail and the interior o the body, which The funnel portion 11 is IOO IIC

lated material.

` internal flangel, and theI crown member 19 is soldered at its periphery to the said annular strainer.l The strainer thus supports the member 19. By crowning the member 19 the milk that passes through the upper strainer 16 and falls upon thesaid member is shed by the latter to the annular screen 20, through which the milk passes to the body of the pail. 1

In practice the upper screen 16 prevents hair, dirt, flies, and'other foreign substances from passing into the pail, and anyi' of the iiner particles that happen to pass through the screen 16 will be excluded by the screen 20, which may with advantagebe of iiner mesh than the upper screen. Should sediment happen to get into the milk in the body 1,- this will be screened out by the very iine strainer 5 at the spout, so .that the milk will be clean, sanitary, and pure when bottled or canned Jfor the market. The lid 7 of the spout and the member 19 of the inner screen serve t3 restrict'the entrance vof any noxious odors to the milk, so that the latter will not be olluted.

. have described the principle of operation of the invention, together with the apparatus which I now consider to be the best embodi' ment thereof; but I desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is merely illustrative and that various changes may be made when desired as are within the scope o'r' the invention.

What is claimed iss- 1. A milk-pail comprising a body having a cylindrical neck, and a spout in the side of the' body below the neck; a bottom strainersection having a cylindrical lower ortion removably fitting in the neck ofthe ody and a funnel extending above the neck, a crowned unperforated plate arranged centrally in the lower end of the cylindrical portion and of less diameter than the latter, and an annular screen connected at its outer edge to the cylindrical portion and at its inner edge to the said late; and atop strainer-section having a cy indrical body removably Jfitting in the lower strainer-section, a crownedscreen extending entirely across the said cylindrical body, and reinforcingmembers for supporting the crowned screen and preventing c ol lapsng thereof.

2. A. milk-pail comprising a body portion having a cylindrical neck, a spout on the said body portion, a cover for the spout hingedly attached thereto, a screen for -straining the milk passing through the spout, a bottom strainer-section having a cylindrical lower end fitted into theneck and provided with an internal annular iiange and a funnel at the upper end, a crowned unperforated member separated from the flange, an annular strainer between the member and flange which is supported on the latter` and in turn supports the said member, an upper strainer-section having a cylindrical portion iitted into the cylindrical portion of the lower section, a rim on the upper section which coperates with the funnel of the lower section to limit the movement of the upper section, handholds on the rim, a crowned strainer on the upper section, and reinforcing devices under the strainer.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as vmy own I have hereto affixed my signature 1n the presence of two witnesses.

i JACOB J. NOIFY. Witnesses:

JOHN A. HosrnrLEn, Y H. H. Hos'rE'rLEn. 

